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Fighting back against the seed cartels

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Tatiana Kondratenko
December 13, 2022

The global seed market is controlled by barely a handful of companies. This monopoly limits farmers' choices about what crops they can grow, and what food ends up on our shelves. What can be done to break it?

What can be done to break the global seed monopoly? 

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